A Defence of the King's Protestant Declaration. By Walter Walsh.
(Swan Sonnenschein and Co. ls.)—From one point of view Mr. Waleh's argument is a strong one. He shows that the Romanists have no idea of reciprocity when they make their demands. They pour insults of every kind upon Protestants ; when they can they deny them liberty of worship, and even of speech. "We alone are free," says one of their public journals ; "a Catholic's freedom of conscience is grievously impaired by the toleration of other religions." Such quotations might be indefi- nitely multiplied; but these things do not shake our conviction that our best, indeed our only, course is to be consistent with our own theories of freedom. The time may come when we may have to fight for it; we shall not fight for it with less success if we are faithful to it now.
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